HARTLEY Wintney will hope to bounce back to winning ways this weekend, but have a tough trip to Southern League Division Two leaders Trojans.

The game will be even tougher as the Eastleigh side will be smarting from their first defeat of the season, as they bowled out for 86 and lost to Fawley.

Despite a superb all-round performance from Tom Garwood, Hartley lost another high scoring thriller against visiting Hambledon last weekend.

They will be boosted this week, by the return of captain Danny Plume, Scott Baldwin and Patrick Joseph.

When Hartley faced Trojans earlier in the season at the village green they were beaten by a 152 runs, as they bowled out for 127.

Looking ahead to the game Plume said: “We have a number of guys back this week and it would be nice to win at Trojans as we did not give a good account of ourselves in the first game.”

In last Saturday’s loss, Garwood scored a century and took three wickets, but Hartley lost by five wickets The opener hit a superb 115 from 101 balls, which saw him hit six sixes and 14 fours in the home side’s total of 334-9.

Garwood shared in a first wicket stand worth 62.

The runs continued to flow, thanks to Chris Saville (27), Jack Hersh (25) and Jonny Rowland followed on from last week’s century for the second team, with a 32-ball 63, which included four sixes.

The visitors made a good start in their reply, as openers George Marshall (99) and Mbulelo Nkomo (133 not out) put on 152 for the first wicket. Garwood took two quick wickets, but Nkomo and Chakrabarti (60) added 145 for the third wicket. Two further run outs followed, before Nkomo who hit 16 fours and four sixes and Ian Turner got Hambledon home.